FRISCO, Texas — Landing a rock-star coach like Tom Herman at $5 million per year doesn’t guarantee a Texas turnaround in the first year.
Herman poked fun at fans and media who “love to throw on their burnt orange sunglasses and have all these crazy expectations,” especially in light of sobering reminders his staff encounters while assembles its 2018 recruiting class.
“These 16-year-old kids that we’re recruiting, since they were 10 years old, they’ve seen two winning Texas football seasons — two,” he said. “And they’ve seen four losing Texas football seasons.
“So the Texas that they know is a lot different than the Texas that people in my generation know.